Chapter 25 (1/2)

Chapter 25: Child and Cat and Last Boss and

The carriage outside the cave was the one Ruby was riding. There’s no horse, so I used the magic Float, and let Coco pull it.

Coco easily pulled that so rather than a carriage, it felt like a dog sled.

I let Ruby ride that, and returned to the town of Barza.

In the entrance of the town, people gathered and was surrounding Adriano.

「Hime-sama!」

Adriano found us, and let out a loud voice. And soon, the other people looked at us at once.

The carriage(dog sled) had stopped, and Ruby came out from that.

To the appearance of the princess, the crowd was rustling.

Adriano who was in seiza on the ground came in front of Ruby as if to crawl.

「W-Were you alright. This Adriano, worriedーー」

Those words stopped in the middle, and Adriano 「Uu!」 groaned.

The expression of Ruby who looks down at him, her eyes also, was very cold.

「How could you leave me behind」

*ZawaZawa* The eyes of the crowd became even colder.

That outrageous thing, was said from the person itself, so it became an unwavering truth.

「T-That is not true, Hime-sama. There’s a reasonーーt-that’s right, I wanted to call for help so I, from that placeーー」

「Adriano, I will release you from your post as court magician」

「Hime-sama?!」

Adriano, shocked.

That isn’t something to be surprised of right, that’s normal right.

「This place was your hometown right. Then, return to your house, the official notice will be sent later」

「Hime-sama」

「Return」

Ruby said with full of dignity. Adriano was intimidated and couldn’t say anything, and collapsed to the ground just like that.

Ruby and the people of the town’s cold, and scorn sight.

That was the instance that the man who had achievements to a court magician’s downfall was decided.

The next day, I was called out.

The place where I was guided by the messenger was inside the most splendid mansion in the town of Barza, and in the most splendid room.

I faced Ruby there.

「……」

I was speechless. I lost my words from Ruby’s attire.

Ruby was wearing a normal dress yesterday, but it was completely different today.

If I say it in few words, the Last Boss in the choir battle in the end of the year, that kind of 「Attire Set」 Ruby was wearing.

There is dignity in that……there is, though……

「Lucio Martein」

Ruby called my name. Maybe because of her attire, her tone also had more dignity than yesterday.

A dignity that wants you to kneel down naturally.

「About yesterday, you did a great job. Once again, let me say my grat.i.tude」

「Ha〜」

I replied half-heartedly. Honestly, I was too curious about her attire.

「I need to give you a reward. You wanted the free pa.s.s to the Grimoire Library, but are you sure you’re alright with that」

「Is it “something like that”, that place. The Grimoire Library that has tens of thousands of Grimoires, isn’t it that very valuable」

「There is no value to things that are not readable properly」

Ahh, that was it huh.

In this world, just by reading Manga(grimoire) you can learn magic, but there isn’t a lot of people who can read it, and even those who can read would take months with one book.

Pig in pearls, it’s weird to use that, but it’s something like that huh.

But, that is only for the normal people of this world.

Being able to read one manga for around an hour, and be able to learn magic with that, there’s no greater reward than that.

Simply, the Grimoires itself is very expensive too.

「I’m alright with that, I was also thinking that I wanted to learn more and more magic too」

「I see. Somebody」

When Ruby said that, one servant came inside.

The servant respectfully held the tray, and took it in front of me.

On the top of the tray was one sheet of paper, a paper with an emblem in it.

I took that with my hand.

「Take that, and go to the Royal Grimoire Library in the capital, I already had taken care of it. Other than taking them out, do what you want」

「I see, thank you」

「Do you really not need anything else? Y-You saved me jya, I can grant you at least one last thing」

「No, this is enough」

I rolled the paper, and put it in my pocket.

It’s not like I did something that special, so this is enough.

「I see……」

Ruby made a depressed expression for some reason.

Did she want me to ask for more? I can’t understand what royals are thinking.

「Well then, let’s meet at the capital」

Ruby said that, she faced to her side and started walking.

Somehow I thought. Is she able to walk decently with that set-like attire.

I thought that if she couldn’t walk decently with it, she might fall down.

I thought, and stared at her. But, Ruby walked normally.

She was walking with dignity so she was slow, but normally, she walked without anything happening.